On July 4th, 2006, I embarked on a quest to become the pre-eminent American portrait painter of the 21st century. This blog chronicles that journey. With apologies to Joan Didion, I call it THE YEAR OF MAGICAL PAINTING.

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

And now this...

And now this, from a website called "the-saleroom.com", which is, I guess, an on-line auction house:

The price is 150=200 lbs. If that's how one refers to the British currency. Given the venue, how could it not be? It might be fun to bid. If you want to buy it and give it to me as an act of, say, fromage, go to:

She married leading literary agent Clive Goodwin in 1963 (d.1977) and had a daughter, Boty Goodwin (b.1966 d.1995). Pauline died in 1966 of cancer.

Her famous 1963 painting of Christine Keeler, Scandal, based on the Profumo affair, is now lost.[2] Her painting The Only Blonde in the World is in public ownership at Tate Liverpool. My Colouring Book, 1963, is part of the Grabowski gift at the Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, Lodz, Poland.

Pauline's painting and collage often demonstrated a joy in self-assured femininity and sexuality, and implied or express criticism of the male-dominated establishment, which, combined with her own gregarious and extravert nature has caused her to be remembered by some as a herald of 1970s feminism.

I don't have the patience to remove the links. Usually I do, but not today.

And whoa! Check this out:

and this:

In order, "The Only Blonde in the World" and "My Colouring Book".

I love the idea that she named her daughter Boty--an act of feminist militance if ever there was one.